J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote Sun, Jun 03, 2007: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 08:24:23PM +0200, Jonas Fonseca wrote: > > It attempts to list some of the most commonly used commands, which should > > give new users an idea of how to get started. > > > > Available both as a manpage (generated via a script) and HTML page. > > We have a "git quick start" here: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#git-quick-start > > and there's one on the wiki: > > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/QuickStart > > I think the one in the manual tries to follow the organization of the > manual more closely. I like the manual version best. However, it is not as "visually" clean and simple as I would like, but perhaps this sort of "use case" approach is better. > I haven't tried to compare those two recently, or to compare yours to > either of them. If you could compare and suggest any improvements, > that'd be helpful. I will see what I can do when I get the time and courage. :) > I like your name better ("quick reference" as opposed to "quick start"). Yes, "quick start" suggest (at least to me) that it is a tutorial and it seems far from that. > Having it as a man page may be a good idea too. I'd like to keep a copy > in the manual as well, though, so we'd have to include from some common > file. The main idea was to have the reference in a printable format similar to svn-ref. But the man page was easy to do, although it might not be something that users would stumble upon. -- Jonas Fonseca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
